At age 56 I picked up a whistle and learned to play it. After a year of practice I mastered it sufficiently to play 'out' and within 2 years was playing semi-professionally and still am.

Now, at age 62, I have bought myself a fiddle with bow and a tutor book with CD and have spent, so far, one week trying to master the rudiments of playing. It will take much longer than a year to play 'out' but the pleasure of making a musical sound and improving, just and little, each time you pick up the fiddle, makes life wonderfully fulfilling. Music nourishes the soul and gives one a feeling of wellbeing like nothing else.

As soon a the local fiddle classes start next year, I'll be there learning properly from a teacher.

So, play on, ChrisNightbird